“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

Rachel Carson

Helen and I went for a walk along the seawall

one evening

Where we saw some of the birds we often

see there the Cormorant and the Song Sparrow.

But you are never far from the forest

and the mythagos it shelters.

 Then evening and ships on the bay.

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more

                                          mystical concept of animals. In a world older and
                                        more complete than ours they move finished and complete,

gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never

attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are

not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations,

caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,

fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

 

  The Outermost House

Henry  Beston